Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Chicago, Vermilion & Wilmington Coal Co.

This was assumpsit, in the Superior Court of Cook county, in which a recovery was sought on the following facts:

Prior to April 30, 1869, certain individuals had, through and by one Oliver Young, contractor, constructed a railroad, extending from Streator, the center of a coal region, on the Vermilion river, in LaSalle county, to Wenona, in Marshall county, situate on the Illinois Central railroad. On April 30, these parties sold this road to the St. Louis, Jacksonville and Chicago Eailroad Company, for a valuable consideration agreed upon and paid. An instrument in writing, called a…